More than 50 years ago, men flew to the moon. This is repeatedly questioned and spread as a so-called conspiracy and moon landing hoax. For one of the most important events in world history, astrophysicist and space...
In a distant galaxy, millions of light-years away from us, a star has exploded – and we were able to watch it! This powerful stellar explosion is called Supernova 2025rbs and was discovered in the galaxy NGC 7331 in the...
Travel – night work – clouds. Astronomers struggle with obstacles. We want to overcome these with a new observation station. A radio telescope is actually nothing more than an optical telescope. It only works at...
The Crescent Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus is a beautiful summer object. The source of this emission nebula, which is around 4,700 light years away, is its central Wolf-Rayet star WR137. This massive star is...
The Schnörringen Observatory invites you to a movie screening. As part of a series of events on the subject of space travel, we will be showing an exciting documentary on the subject of the moon landing on a cozy film...
Since we put our large telescope into operation, we have been working on setting up various peripheral systems that have to work together harmoniously. These are the automatic focus, the pressure in the air cushion...
Just like last year, pupils from Engelbert von Berg-Gymnasium in Wipperfürth visited us with their teacher David Dudziak to find out about our work and the opportunities on site. We discussed general questions about...
Astrophotographers collect as many photons as possible and therefore have to expose their images for a long time – or they use several telescopes simultaneously. We have three identical telescopes and cameras in...
The Dumbbell Nebula, Messier 27, in the constellation Vulpecula, is one of the most beautiful planetary nebulae in the northern night sky and is about 1,300 light years away. The nebula is the ejected gas shell of a...
The vast majority of amateur astronomers take photos of objects in the sky. This is more complicated than initially expected, as the raw data has to be processed extensively to achieve good results. Our club member...
On April 3, we hosted an exciting Girls’ Day that introduced seven schoolgirls to the fascinating world of astronomy. Under the motto “Astrophotography and image processing”, the participants immersed themselves...
… that fires the imagination with its thunderous storms and enormous cloud bands. Through a small telescope of 150mm aperture on the balcony at home, it appears as a glowing sphere surrounded by its faithful moons...
